SpaceX went off today and exploded after the launch. It was the biggest and most powerful rocket yet. Elon’s reaction was spectacular.
“No such thing as failure, only learnings for the next attempt. Awesome job SpaceX! KEEP FIGHTING! #SpaceX“. Musk reportedly said.
SpaceX then told news of an anomaly. “The vehicle experienced an anomaly on ascent. Team is investigating”, with Musk detailing “Falcon 9 experienced a problem shortly before first stage shutdown. Will provide more info as soon as we review the data.” A news conference is set for 9:30 am PST to discuss today’s explosion.
BREAKING: SpaceX Starship explodes 4 minutes into flight.
Truly remarkable to see a 40 story building leave the ground.
Congrats to the @SpaceX team! pic.twitter.com/YizSTFmRVS
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 20, 2023
WE HAVE LIFTOFF! #SpaceX successfully launched their Starship rocket on Thursday, the most powerful rocket ever built. pic.twitter.com/ywECiNqp38
— FOX Weather (@foxweather) April 20, 2023
What a spectacular end#SpaceX
pic.twitter.com/Lp9J4Xb3Mk— Isaiah Clark (@itsIsaiahclark) April 20, 2023
#starship ended with an explosion!
Well done #spacex team! 🚀#StarshipLaunch pic.twitter.com/FjpiDXoEyX— Arthur (@ArthurSpeaking) April 20, 2023
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Your biggest shareholders, the US Taxpayers, thank you, Elon, for another “learning” experience. Sigh.
Elon, thank you for StarLink which was made possible by your low cost rocket technology that NASA couldn’t envision in over 50 years.
This is futile, the Word of God tells us that during His Creation of Earth and it’s heavens, He put in place a Firmament, they know they cannot get past it. They will have to be happy with floating around in our upper atmosphere and pretending they went to outer space. The wise thing to do would be to take… Read more »
Yep. And everyone concerned about freedom is a bible thumping idiot right? Good try Lib troll. You gotta sharpen your approach. We’re onto you.
I must have missed that Bible verse that said that we can’t get past the “Firmament.” Would you please point that one out to me.
Never Give UP
NEVER GIVE IN
GO FOR IT
Next time fill with Dems, then launch.
I support Elon in this venture.
the most powerful rocket ever built.
At least 6 of the BOOSTERS did even fire..
They have LOTS AND LOTS of thing to Work out before they DESTROY anymore Stuff….
NO ELON wasn’t making a Booster Smiley Face for His FAN BOYS those were Failed boosters TOO many Failures off the Pad!!!!
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD!!!!!
You have not been paying attention at all to Space X. If you were you would not make such an ignorant statement.
PwaP is a chinaman. Can’t do anything right.
You do know the first stage of the Saturn 5 rocket had ONLY 5 engines, and Musk’s has 33 and burning a new fuel. It is pretty clear to me that what you don’t know about rocketry would fill a volume. So instead of throwing your opinion in, how about marveling at the team which recovered a booster onto a… Read more »
Elon is no rocket surgeon either, wiseguy. He is, however, an astronomically clever grifter, stellar con artist, and a galaxy-class starship commander of taxpayer subsidization!
Will he say the SAME THING when He kills a bunch of People???? YOU KNOW HE WILL……YOU PEOPLE are EXPENDABLE to Elon Musk? You’re JUST Junk to be Played with by a Billionaire playing with his Toys…..He’ll KILL all of You FOR HIS DREAM to Be RICHER AND RICHER….NOTICE he’s NOT getting into his Own ROCKETS and Riding off on… Read more »
Clearly, the rocket was ‘Vaxxed’…..It is just another meaningless stat to hide in the CDCs stealth VAERS category.
Perhaps the rocket just needed another “BOOSTER” ???
Put a mask on it to…….that will help it “stay safe.”
HOW DO YOU BLOCK THIS AH
Wow, Communist Abound on this site, why don’t we just block you and your desire to DESTROY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE 1st Amendment !
You are not taking your medications again aren’t you?
PwaP is a chinaman. Can’t do anything right.
Researched, knowledgable, and helpful information $1000
Blatantly ignorant yammering, 50 cents. Yes, it’s worthless, but we’ll reward you for comedic effort.
As far as I know Elon Musk hasn’t killed anyone with his rockets. That’s why you do unmanned testing first – to get all of the bugs out, especially with things that have never been done before. Even most of NASA’s failures didn’t kill anybody. There have only been three accidents where people died, out of scores of launches and… Read more »
Cheering over this failure is inappropriate. That thing clearly was spinning while the announcers celebrated. There is something wrong with the announcers and the fans. We were separating stages over 50 years ago with no mishaps.
Yes we have mistakes and we fix things. But pretending is not sensible.
By “we” I can only assume you were not directly involved in the space program. ‘No mishaps’? Stage separation has always been a major concern – perhaps you missed the Space Shuttle Columbia explosion
This is WHY reusable Rockets are POINTLESS and a WASTE OF TIME…..WE NEED A BETTER WAY….THIS AINT IT…..
SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO BLOCK THIS IDIOT SCUMBAG
Why block him? Isn’t he our in-house comedian? OK…he doesn’t mean to be funny. Still, every time he comments, he throws egg all over his own face.
Design it or shut up with your basic math caculations. Build a better rocket. Your arrogance is simply amazing. Those people are doing things you cannot even dream of and you have the unmitigated gall to criticize them? GFY
PwaP is a chinaman. Can’t do anything right.
You must be Gen-Z! You can’t figure out how to move science forward so you think trying is a waste of time.
That wasn’t a stage separation issue. Was a solid rocket motor gasket issue. Also was not the first launch of that system. How many rockets did Robert Goddard launch before success? How about NASA’s early efforts with Atlas rockets? Give them time to solve “whatever happened”.
Apollo, Gemini, I can’t remember them all but NASA’s blowed up rockets usually killed people! Not empty rockets. Damn you’re dumb and or uninformed!
Ah, no, only three of NASA’s failures killed people. The rest were unmanned vehicles.
Columbia (the actual shuttle vehicle) disintegrated upon reentry, due to missing ceramic tiles. Challenger (to which you were probably referring) blew up because of a booster failure where an O-ring was defective and hot exhaust gasses escaped, causing an explosion. Neither one of these cases was due to a failure of stage separation. They were completely different failure modes. Perhaps… Read more »
And you received your PHD in Aerospace Engineering from….?
Where did The WRIGHT BROTHERS get Their Degrees?????
Oh That’s RIGHT They DIDN’T HAVVE ONE
DON’T BE a MORON your WHOLE LIFE
GROW-UP and Figure that Pc. Of Paper from a College Means Nothing in the Big Picture!!!!
Gates , Jobs and lots of others didn’t even finish College!!!!
Having a Pc. of Paper does not MAKE one an EXPERT!!!!
PwaP is a chinaman. Can’t do anything right.
Not a failure, just another way that has undesirable results.
Learn, adjust, plan it through and do it again.
Thomas Edison’s quote in creating the light bulb:
“I have not failed, I have found a thousand ways that will not work”
This was phenomenally successful mission. It was also the first attempt at a new stage separation method, which failed. The critical part of the super heavy configuration test, would lift off and to make it past Max Q, which is did! 6 engines flamed out, but the rocket made it to space (120,000 ft). Amazingly successful test launch. Simply amazing….… Read more »
Let’s get this clear.. YOU have been separating stages? More likely, you have been watching other people do the work. You do remember Challenger right? You do know, the smart people said don’t do it because of the cold temperatures, but the bosses said do it? You do know the first stage of the Saturn 5 rocket had ONLY 5… Read more »
Failures are a part of ultimate success. However, I agree. Treating this so glibly …and the gal reporting from the “command center” trying to talk this failure into “amazing success” (with nervous giggling) is HUGELY inappropriate. Failure shouldn’t be celebrated but acknowledged and mourned. THEN move on,